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Public/digital & urban history @rutgers_newark. Come & Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters & The Wire @jhupress. #AbolishICE
Nov 24, 2020 271 tweets >60 min read
At 1pm I'll live tweet the Hudson County freeholders meeting. They're voting on renewing their contract to hold immigrants in detention at the jail even tho they said in 2018 they wouldn't. All Dems btw @NorthNJDSA @PaxChristiNJ @nycDSA @AFSC
Join meeting zoom.us/j/91553925879 Want some background?
Hudson County should end the horror of ICE detainment. Don’t renew the contract. by @whitstrub and Marlene Ramos
nj.com/opinion/2020/1…
Jun 18, 2018 15 tweets 5 min read
Yesterday, several Congressional reps from NY & NJ demanded access to the Elizabeth Detention Center. I toured the facility a couple years ago w/students as part of @humanities_lab. Since there's such secrecy around this place, I wanted to share what we saw. 1/? @ykristyn Background: EDC opened in mid-90s by a private company who didn’t train guards & abused detainees, mostly African asylum seekers. The detainees won a lawsuit. 2/?